International Human Rights Day International Human Rights Day is the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Harsh Criminal Sentencing More than 2.2 million Americans are imprisoned. 325.7 million people live in America today and more than 2.2 million live in a prison.
Criminal sentencing has gotten worse over the years.
Most of the over incarceration sentences are due to the excessive sentencing given.
There are concerns about over incarceration. It is partly due to mandatory minimum sentencing.
Thirty one states in the US impose (force) the death penalty. In 2017 when the article "Harsh Criminal Sentencing" was written, 23 people were already killed, by lethal injection.
Several US states continue to use drugs that they are experimenting with and are refusing to stop their experiments
